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Migration on the rise, a paradigm in decline : the last half-century of global mobility
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012820735
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Women and migration
Antman, Francisca M. - 2018
around the world have placed greater focus on the varied impacts of migration in recent years. Critical to this line of … research is an examination of the important role that women play in both sending and destination areas. This chapter addresses … various aspects of the relationship between women and migration, including key ways in which non-migrant women are affected by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795125
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Immigration and the reallocation of work health risks
Giuntella, Osea; Mazzonna, Fabrizio; Nicodemo, Catia; … - 2016
This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work health risks. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey, we find that, on average, immigration leads to a reallocation of UK-born workers towards jobs characterized by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572021
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International immigration and labor regulation
Levai, Adam; Turati, Riccardo - 2024
. This effect is particularly strong for two components of workers' protection: worker representation laws and employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014517308
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Network abroad and culture : global individual-level evidence
Turati, Riccardo - 2024
individuals without such connections within the same region. Using individual-level data on connectedness from the Gallup World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015053879
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Long-term relatedness between countries and international migrant selection
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2018
This paper studies the effect of the long-term relatedness between countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. Analyzing bilateral migrant stocks of the 15 main destination countries and 85 sending countries for the year 2000, we find that migrant selection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853118
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International migration with heterogeneous agents : theory and evidence
Brücker, Herbert (contributor);  … - 2006
International migration is characterized by two puzzling facts: First, only a small share of the population tends to migrate although substantial and persisting income differences across countries exist. Second, net migration rates tend to cease over time despite persisting income differences....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003376850
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Remittances and the brain drain revisited : the microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
Bollard, Albert; McKenzie, David J.; Morten, Melanie; … - 2009
Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909197
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A global view of cross-border migration
Di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ortega, Francesc - 2012
This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and destinations, using a quantitative multi-sector model of the global economy calibrated to aggregate and firm-level data on 60 developed and developing countries. Our framework accounts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545275
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The role of income and immigration policies in attracting international migrants
Ortega, Francesc; Peri, Giovanni - 2012
This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD destination countries and 120 sending countries for the period 1980-2006. We also collect data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009550658